Different outcomes after World Championship

Denmark and Sweden gained economically by arranging the World Championship last December. Norway reports a deficit from the same competition, according to VG.

Several Scandinavian media outlets present the outcome of the women’s championship last year.

Denmark earned six million crowns after the group stage, main round and final games in Herning. For Sweden the stands were full to the extent that the federation count on roughly a million swedish crowns plus, confirms Robert Wedberg to SVT.

The Norway adventure is a different story, VG writes that the event lost one million crowns. There are things to be learned as Norway will arrange five more championships within eight years.

– The amount for a family in a game was too high. We will take action before the mens world championships in order to make it more reasonable to travel to a handball game with your nearest, says handball president Kåre Geir Lio to VG.